[PD] [PD-announce] Piksel video report: Sonification of IT censorship technologies

[Derek Holzer]

Hi Marco,

On 12/23/10 10:26 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:

 > Maybe the artist does not always need to perfectly know how to code
 > something, but the conceptual relevance of a work can be unveiled and
 > successfully diffused even if somehow a work lacks of technical
 > consistence, or does not fulfil requirements of a scientific paper.

here I would agree 100%, as it follows directly from what I wrote 
already. Ii think, rather than dealing with the fallout of the Romantic 
era as Mathieu suggested, we are dealing with the fallout of the 
1980's--and its intesification of spectacle and commodity.

Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and etc taught us that art must be BIG and to 
go beyond the scale of what artists can make by themselves in the studio 
by hiring craftspeople and technicians to realize massive, expensive 
works as the desirable aim of this art market economy. Although driven 
by a different kind of economics--mainly grants and subsidies with 
academic, social and political concerns involved--art/sci work still 
strives for the spectacle in a similar way.

I am personally not interested in what kind of work someone fund-raise 
and be a middle-manager to create. I want to see what someone is capable 
of doing with their own two hands, as flawed as that may be. For any art 
to be experimental, the possibility of failure must be present at all times.

At the other extreme of the spectrum, and closer to my own heart, are 
artists like David Tudor. After becoming the premier avant-garde concert 
pianists, he locked himself in the studio for two years and taught 
himself analog electronics. His electronic creations represented his own 
personal musical vision--with all the idiosyncrasies included--and have 
always been a huge inspiration. And I would happily categorize your work 
more along these lines as well.

In case this sounds like part of a paper--it is. I will be curating an 
edition of the Canadian online journal Vague Terrain in March 2011 under 
the theme "Schematic as Score" and I intend to address a lot of this 
material there.

Happily veering OT,
Derek


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